Senior Associate

The role

DLA Piper is seeking a Senior Associate with 2-7 years of PQE to join their Finance practice in London. This role focuses on complex, cross-border derivatives transactions and broader financial markets projects, offering significant client contact and exposure to high-profile matters.

What you'll do

• Support on OTC and securitised derivatives, structured note/warrant/certificate programmes (on and off-balance sheet with SPVs, consolidated/non-consolidated) with the whole range of asset class underlying, as well as bonds, loans and trade receivables, including OTC credit-linked/CDS-based products
• Draft and negotiate a wide range of trading and derivatives transactions based on complex documentation using or adapting ISDAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs, ETD and prime brokerage agreements
• Engage with regulatory developments including EMIR, MiFID II and BMR
• Handle digital projects, commodities and carbon or business-critical market disruption issues and close-outs
• Manage deal-contingent FX, interest rate and commodities hedging in the context of M&A transactions or finance-linked hedging for project or commodities financings
• Support on sharia-compliant derivatives and structured products (eg deposit-linked certificates) with Middle East teams
• Work on digital projects with banks, financial market infrastructure and technology corporates for tokenisation and DLT solutions for new custody, settlement and collateral management of securities, including in the funds space for tokenised money mark funds as collateral
• Assist key Tier 1 and 2 institutions on developing products for digital asset underlyings, offering new digital asset margin loans and securities financing/prime services products and digital asset collateral management documentation
• Advise digital asset exchanges, market-makers, hedge funds and digital asset traders on new digital asset securities financing and derivatives products, new digital asset futures contracts with intra-day margining features and new digital assets conversion/transformation needs as well as integrating AI assistance and other AI use cases
• Collaborate with DCM and financial regulatory teams for establishing digital bond platforms for key banks and custodians and working on natively digital or tokenised securities in both primary and secondary markets for efficient settlement, allocation, distribution or post-trade workflows
• Assist commodities teams and core corporate clients on carbon product documentation and new transactions with voluntary emissions reductions purchase agreements and ISDA voluntary carbon credit definitions with novel carbon asset swaps
• Support on commodities teams expanding to gas, power, energy and EV metals trading areas with EFET and other documentation
• Assist key private capital investors, multi-strategy hedge funds, market makers, high frequency quant funds and proprietary traders with trading needs and key private capital transactions

What we're looking for

Benefits